((I just randomly felt like doing this after reading a similar... ish thing on another forum. The difference is, that wasn't meant to be serious in any regard. I want this to have a serious tone to it.

As it says, I'll write the story (if someone wants to throw me a suggestion, just PM me), and you guys will make the decisions of what you want to do (out of the choices I give you, of course). So... Here goes. The story begins...))

You wake up with a light jump. You had just had one of those falling dreams where you wake up just before you hit the ground. Thin rays of sunshine are starting to penetrate the darkness, so you figure it must be dawn. For some reason, you can’t remember anything. Your name, where you are, what the date is… Nothing comes to you, no matter how hard you try to search your mind. You reach up and rub your right temple.

Quiet breathing to your left draws your attention. There is a light weight on your shoulder, and you can feel soft hair rubbing against your neck. You turn to look, and find that a young girl, perhaps 12 or 13, is sleeping with her head on your shoulder. Upon the questioning of your own morals, a memory returns. Her name is Alyssa, and she’s your younger sister. More memories start to return, but only those of your name, age, and birthday. The last event you can remember is your twenty-second birthday being about fourteen days ago, on August twelfth.

Both of you are dressed in dirty, torn clothes. You are wearing a black shirt that’s missing the sleeves, and has a long tear along the left seam from the bottom almost to the armpit. Also, you are wearing a pair of blue jeans that, with a little more stress, could easily become shorts at the knees. Alyssa has on a pale-blue, long sleeved top that’s a size to large, and a pair of jeans in much better condition then your own.

You take a quick look at your surroundings before deciding on what to do. You’re in a dead-end alleyway just off of a road. The building to your left appears to be an apartment complex, judging from the small trinkets in a few of the windows. Something about the plants in some of the windows seems odd. They look dead, or dying, from what you can see. The fire escape is still up, so you don’t believe you came from there. The building to your right has no distinguishing features, simply a large brick wall. The same applies to the wall behind you.

Since you’ve woken up, not a single car or person has passed the entrance to the alleyway. You assume that this could be for one of two reasons. Either the road is a side-street that receives little traffic, or it’s just too early for people to be up and about. From here, you have a decision to make. What will you do…?

A ) Gently wake Alyssa and ask her if she can remember any more then you can.

B ) Let Alyssa sleep, but gently lift her off your shoulder and set her on the ground. After that, walk out onto the street and look around.

C ) Shrug her off cruelly and leave her behind while you head out to the street to look around.

((Yes, I am trying to give the reader a choice of good vs. bad. I'll tell you now, none of the options are more likely to end badly than any of the others. Sometimes being a nice guy won't end well, sometime being a bad guy won't end well, sometimes being neutral won't end well. You'll just have to progress through the story to find out.

I'm going with the choice of the first person to post their answer, so you might want to hurry if you want something specific to happen.))

I am going with choice A.

You reach over and grab Alyssa’s arm. Upon your soft shaking, she wakes up and looks around, much like you did. She blinks a few times to try and remove the sleep from her eyes, and then looks over at you. Her large blue eyes show fear, and she clutches tightly to your arm.

“Brother, where are we?” She asks, breaking her stare at you to look around once more. Her grip on your arm tightens even more, to the point where it’s painful. You twist your arm slowly from her grasp and wrap it around her.

“I was kind of hoping you would know, but everything’s okay. I’m here with you. Now, come on, stand up.” You slowly stand and try to pull Alyssa to her feet. However, when she shifts her weight onto her right leg, you have to catch her to keep her from collapsing. You set her down against the wall again, and check her leg. You hadn’t noticed it before because of how she was sitting, but she has a large gash just behind and below her knee. It appears that someone had created a cloth bandage for it from… a black sleeve. That would explain your missing sleeves. You had probably used the first one to bandage it initially, and then replaced the bandage with your second sleeve later on.

Suddenly, even more memories return. From your own eyes, you can see that you are running down a long street. Your hand is clasped tightly around Alyssa’s; you’re almost dragging her along behind you. You can’t remember what you’re running from, but you know that you’re running for your life. The sounds of shattering glass and twisting metal seem to explode from your left. A car has just been crushed with an enormous falling force. You hear Alyssa scream, and feel her hand slip from yours. You turn to see her lying on the ground with a piece of glass sticking out of the back of her leg. You curse to yourself, and start tearing off your left sleeve.

You return to the present. Alyssa is calling your name and wondering what happened to you. She’s almost in hysterics from your lack of response. You calm her down.

Alyssa is injured, and can’t walk on her own. You have another decision to make...

A ) You can’t leave her behind, but you feel like you can’t stay here. You let her use you as a crutch and move out into the street.

B ) This is a definite complication. You decide you should let her stay here while you go out to the street and look around to see if you can regain any more of your memory.

C ) Damn it… All she’ll do is slow you down. You should just leave her behind and move out on your own. Better her than you, right?

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((I'll also post the bad endings at times too. This particular choice wouldn't have ended well had you chose B.))

BAD ENDING

You lift Alyssa's head off your shoulder and set her down on the ground. You stand up and walk out into the street. It's deserted, and looks like a ghost town. Windows are broken, cars are in pieces... What happened? You wish you knew.

You hear Alyssa call out to you from behind. Her voice is soft, as though she's still sleeping, so you pay no mind. You look around for a few more minutes, and return to the alley. Alyssa's gone.

"Alyssa? Alyssa? Where are you?" You run into the alley trying to find where she may have hidden. You hear a scratching noise to your right, and turn to look at the fire escape.

"Oh god..." Are the only words you can say.

GAME OVER.